Monday, July 13, 2020

No stink

The body lay on the garbage heap
Camouflaged
Partly in appearance
But completely, in spirit
Wasted, broken and discarded
The question is not: 'why does it feel repulsive?'
The question is: 'why does it feel repulsive, now?'

When in life, it did not matter
But dead matter needs to be attended to
Else it would stink our fragrant lives
Ah, we won't stink when we're dead
They'll take care
The question is not: 'why does it feel repulsive?'
The question is: 'why does it feel repulsive, now?'

Offered a ritual In death
But none in life
Yet the vagabond remains a vagabond
In life and in death
The question is not: 'why does it feel repulsive?'
The question is neither: 'why does it feel repulsive, now?'
But 'what's repulsive about that?'

1 comment:

Priya said...

Thanks for sharing your writing Rohit